Quotes about Perception
The truth is that the sole reason we don't see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.
— RC Sproul Jr.
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
— Madeleine L'Engle
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
— Henri Matisse
If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.
— Louis Bourdaloue
People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.
— Seth Godin
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
— Toni Morrison
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul under the ribs of death.
— John Milton
Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
— Philip Yancey
We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
— Philip Yancey
If we cannot detect God's presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places.
— Philip Yancey